J. E. Casely Hayford

Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford was born on 29 September 1866 at Cape Coast, the son of a Methodist pastor. Educated at Fourah Bay College in Freetown, then in London, at the Inner Temple, he was called to the bar in 1896, ran newspapers of the Gold Coast, in 1910 presided over the Aborigines' Rights Protection Society and in 1916 entered the Legislative Council. Founder in 1919 of the National Congress of British West Africa, he died in 1930.

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